GOLD CUP third Road To Riches is an intended runner in the Punchestown Gold Cup next month, connections reported yesterday, although they also revealed the effort of keeping tabs on front-running winner Coneygree last Friday at Cheltenham took its toll.

THE Cheltenham Festival 2015 will be remembered as belonging to Willie Mullins as Ireland's champion trainer claimed a record eighth success at the meeting with Killultagh Vic winning the Martin Pipe in a photo-finish.

WILLIE MULLINS equalled Nicky Henderson's record of seven winners at a single festival when Wicklow Brave decimated what was supposed to be a competitive handicap, winning by an easy eight lengths at odds of 25-1.

RACING POST photographer Patrick McCann is recovering in Southmead Hospital in Bristol after sustaining a serious leg fracture in a freak accident during the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at Cheltenham on Wednesday.

WILLIE MULLINS completed a magnificent four-timer on the first day of the festival, but the final leg did not go according to the script when a dramatic final flight fall from Annie Power cost her victory.

WILLIE MULLINS and Ruby Walsh, feared by bookmakers to dominate day one of the 2015 Cheltenham Festival, got their meeting off to the perfect start when Douvan proved there was substance to the hype in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle.